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Sue Barnes

The experimental practice of London-born artist and photographer Sue Barnes (1953-2014) encompassed drawing, photography, graphic design, printmaking and typography.

Her early work explored feminist themes about self identity, family, and ‘the home’ - in the 1970s and ’80s she made numerous photographic self-portraits; a series of photographic images of objects from the home environment and an on-going, obsessive series of photographs of TV screens; and produced hand-made books that incorporated her photographs with graphics.

Barnes said that she “used photography for 40 years as a way of recording and image-making as part of my fine art practice… developing visual ideas through the lens”. She made stand-alone photographic images as well as experimenting and using photography in conjunction with other media in her various photographic series and book-works.

A very private artist, Barnes only began to exhibit her work towards the end of her life. In recent years, England & Co have exhibited her works at Paris Photo and Photo London.

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